Steve Smith, correspondent for New York-based TimeOut.com, has published a new article on LIVING COLOUR guitarist Vernon Reid. An excerpt from the report is available below.

Think you’re culturally literate and stylistically diverse? Try keeping up with Vernon Reid, longtime lead guitarist for resurgent hard-rock combo Living Colour and a founder of New York’s influential Black Rock Coalition. Phoning in from a hotel room in São Paolo, Brazil, where he has two notebook computers whirring away on the desk, Reid references Ridley Scott and Blade Runner, William Gibson and Neuromancer, the Star Wars planet-city Coruscant and noirish sci-fi cult flick Dark City inside of five minutes, just to convey his impressions of a gray morning in that sprawling city. Reid’s in Brazil as part of an ongoing tour in support of The Chair in the Doorway, Living Colour’s fifth and latest studio album, released on Megaforce this month. The band’s first effort since its 2001 reunion effort, Collideøscope, is subtle, bluesy, futuristic and funky. In other words, it’s a Living Colour record—though certainly a more mature, introspective sibling for the band’s brash 1988 debut, Vivid.

Having already trekked around much of the United States and points well beyond, the members of Living Colour—Reid, vocalist Corey Glover, bassist Doug Wimbish and drummer Will Calhoun—will celebrate their new CD at the Highline Ballroom on October 30. Back in the swing of things, Reid blames Living Colour’s 1995 split on failing to pause for reflection when bassist Muzz Skillings quit in 1992. “Men have a terrible time expressing and dealing with emotions, and we didn’t grieve the loss of our brother,” Reid admits. “We got together with one of the best bassists in the world and also a personal friend, Doug Wimbish. But we should have taken a time-out, and we didn’t.”

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Upcoming Living Colour live dates include:

October

30 - Highline Ballroom - New York, NY
31 - Pearl Street - Northampton, MA

November

1 - Black Cat - Washington DC
4 - Lunario - Mexico DF, Mexico
6 - Teatro Teleton - Santiago, Chile
7 - Festival Pepsi Music - Buenos Aires, Argentina
8 - Complejo Bloque - Neuquen, Argentina
9 - Ele Multiespacio - Comodoro Rivadavia
11 - Showcase Radio Show "Cual Es" FM Rock & Pop (95.9 MHZ)
12 - Willie Dixon - Rosario, Argentina
13 - La Trastienda - Buenos Aires, Argentina
14 - La Trastienda - Buenos Aires, Argentina
17 - Reithalle - Bern, Switzerland
18 - Hiroshima Mon Amour - Torino, Italy
19 - Circolo - Rome, Italy
20 - Estragon - Bologna, Italy
21 - Flog - Florence, Italy
22 - Deposito Giordani - Pardenone, Italy
24 - Kino Siska - Ljubljana, Slovakia
25 - Palac Acropolis - Prague, Czech Republic
26 - Diesel - Budapest, Hungary
27 - Heiniken Tower Stage - Bratislava, Slovakia
28 - Metro Music Hall - Brno, Switzerland
29 - Fabrik - Hamburg, Germany
30 - Lido - Berlin, Germany

December

2 - VK - Brussels, Belgium
3 - Tunnels - Bristol, UK
4 - The Globe - Cardiff, UK
5 - Robin 2 - Wolverhampton, UK
6 - Garage - London, UK
8 - Oosterpoort - Groningen, Netherlands
9 - De Boerderij - Zoetermeer, Netherlands
10 - 0/13 - Tilburg, Netherlands
11 - Hedon - Zwolle, Netherlands
12 - P3 - Purmerend , Netherlands
13 - Trabendo - Paris, France
15 - Ninkasi - Lyon, France
16 - Faktoria - Terrassa, Spain
17 - Sala Assaig - Mallorca, Spain
18 - Auditorio - Murcia, Spain
19 - Sala Itzala - San Sebastian, Spain
20 - Sala Capitol - Santiago de Compostela, Spain
21 - Sala Heiniken - Madrid, Spain
22 - Santiago Alquimista - Lisbon, Portugal